Farm workers stage violent protest over pay demands, police retaliate with rubber bullets

Описание: (9 Jan 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Wide protesting farm workers throwing rocks at the police
2. Wide of protest with scores of police firing rubber bullets at the protestors
3. Mid of police officers firing rubber bullets
4. Wide of an armoured police vehicle with police officers firing rubber bullets; debris on road including tyre on fire
5. Wide of hundred of protestors running away from the police
6. Mid of N1 highway, protestor setting fire to a tyre
7. Cutaway of protestors standing by on top of a hill
8. Wide armoured police vehicle driving past burning barricades; plumes of smoke rising
9. Mid of two farmers looking at a burnt out bulldozer, whilst an orchard burns in the background
10. Mid of farmer walking past a badly damaged farm building
11. Wide of damaged farm building and orchard on fire in the background
STORYLINE:
South African police fired rubber bullets at striking farm workers, who set up barricades and threw stones at motorists and security forces on Wednesday in a province whose
vineyards are vital to the wine industry.
At least 50 demonstrators were arrested, authorities said.
Labour unrest was reported in several areas of Western Cape province, where similar protests last year also turned violent, resulting in at least two deaths.
The protesters had sought to block roads in De Doorns, in a campaign for higher wages and to prevent other farmhands from going to work.
They want their daily wages to be more than doubled to 150 South African rand (17.5 US dollars), saying they can't survive on their current salaries.
South Africa is a major wine producer. In addition to grape-harvesting, workers involved in the protests work on apple and other fruit farms.
The country's mining industry was also shaken by labour unrest last year. Some of those protests turned violent, culminating in the shooting deaths of several dozen miners by police at a platinum mine.


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